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When it Comes to Fighting for Our Voting Rights, Have We Lost Our Spunk?

Bloody fights over voting rights have dwindled down in 2022 and the bickering over who should vote is mostly reduced to mean tweets. Fighting for voting rights in 2022 feels easy by comparison to 1965

Branden Janese
Feb 13, 2022
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In 1965 history was made when the Voting Rights Act was passed. After years of arrests, beatings, and killings over Black voters exercising their right to cast a ballot, Congress finally enacted laws that shut down the legal barriers that kept Black Americans from voting in local and federal elections. Unfortunately, all of that old drama is new again. …

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